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 | Charles Warren - 1908 - 616 pages
...Locke's Constitution, the prejudice against lawyers was shown by the provisions in the loth article, that "it shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward", and that no one but a near kinsman should plead another's cause, until he had taken an oath in open... | |
 | Charles Warren - 1911 - 608 pages
...following clause in Locke's Constitutions : 1 Life and Times of William Lowndes, by Mrs. St. J. Ravenel. "It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward ; nor shall anyone (except he be a'near kinsman, not farther off than a cousin-german to the party concerned) be permitted to plead... | |
 | Ernest Hamlin Alderman - 1913 - 494 pages
...action declaring rights and prohibiting wrongs were but little regarded."1 However the case may t»e and whether or not lawyers were regarded as of great...permitted to plead another man's cause till, before the judge in open court, he hath taken an oath that he does not plead for money or reward, nor hath,... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1916 - 440 pages
...causes, the verdict of the majority to be binding. Lawyers were enjoined to try cases gratuitously, since "it shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward." All expositions of the constitution were forbidden, "since multiplicity of 1 John Locke (1632-1704),... | |
 | James Louis Petigru, James Petigru Carson - 1920 - 554 pages
...the Philosopher admitted into his constitution this article on the value of professional learning: "It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money; nor shall anyone, except a near kinsman, not further than cousin-germain, be permitted to plead another... | |
 | Daniel Sullivan Henderson, Peronneau Finley Henderson - 1922 - 240 pages
...in it, at the 70th Article (Vol. I, of our Statutes at Large), we have it solemnly enacted that: " It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward. Nor shall any one (except he be a near kinsman, no further off than cousin germane to the party concerned) be... | |
 | Robert Luce - 1924 - 714 pages
...Constitutions that John Locke prepared and the Earl of Shaftesbury amended for Carolina in 1669: " Seventy. It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward; nor shall any one (except he be a near kinsman, not farther off than cousin-german to the party concerned) be... | |
 | North Carolina Bar Association - 1900 - 230 pages
...which I will mention, which was hardly calculated to conciliate the lawyers, as it was declared to "be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward." Time admonishes me that I must confine myself to my original purpose of mentioning some of the laws... | |
 | A. Leon Higginbotham - 1980 - 548 pages
...exemplified in the Fundamental Constitution of 1 669, which, while never validly enacted, declared: It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money or reward; nor shall any one be permitted to plead another man's cause, till before the Judge, in open Court, he hath taken... | |
 | John Locke - 1997 - 458 pages
...they should all agree, but the verdict shall be according to the consent of the majority. (64) [70] It shall be a base and vile thing to plead for money...reward; nor shall anyone, except he be a near kinsman, not further off than cousin german to the party concerned, be admitted to plead another man's cause... | |
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